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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday said that the BRICS is an important force in shaping the international landscape.BRICS countries choose their development paths independently, jointly defend their right to development, and march in tandem toward modernization, which represents the...
At least 17 workers were killed and many others injured Wednesday after an under-construction overhead railway bridge collapsed in India's northeastern state of Mizoram, officials said.The bridge collapsed in Sairang town, about 21 km northwest of Aizawl, the capital city of Mizoram."Under-...
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Tropical storm Harold made landfall in U.S. south Texas Tuesday morning, where it brought heavy rain, gusty winds and some coastal flooding."The center of Harold pushed ashore along Padre Island, Texas, at 10 a.m. CDT," said The Weather Channel, noting that "fortunately, Harold won...
The Pakistani rupee continued its losing streaking against the U.S. dollar, touching a record low as the greenback was traded at 299.01 rupees in the interbank market on Tuesday, according to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP).The U.S. dollar closed at 297.13 rupees on Monday. On the second session of...
The flood situation in the northern Indian state of Punjab has remained grim as the flood water on Monday entered more villages inundating houses, crop lands and roads.At least 36 villages in Tarn Taran, Fazilka and Ferozepur districts were inundated due to fresh breaches in the Sutlej river.Officia...
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The 15th BRICS Summit, to be held in South Africa's Johannesburg next week, has received a lot of media attention in the months leading up to the event, underscoring the growing influence of BRICS over the past years.Analysts believe what happens at Johannesburg will be watched with heightened i...
The death toll from the Maui wildfires in the U.S. state of Hawaii reached 114 on Friday while more than 60 percent of the disaster area has been searched, authorities said.The Maui Police Department confirmed in an update that the total number of fatalities in the deadly wildfires has increased to ...
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The US dollar slided on Friday after euro area inflation showed marginal signs of slowing.The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major peers, was down 0.18 percent to 103.3831 in late trading.According to a report published by the statistical office of the European Union early Fr...
A total of 2,598 Ukrainians taken captive in the Russia-Ukraine conflict have been released as a result of prisoner exchanges, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Friday.So far, Ukraine has carried out 48 prisoner exchanges with Russia since the beginning of the conflict, Andriy Yusov, a spoke...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday that the West is not interested in negotiating with Moscow on the issue of Ukraine.The West held multilateral meetings on Ukraine in Jeddah and Copenhagen without inviting Russia, hoping to persuade developing countries to back the Ukrainian presi...
China Southern Airlines will resume direct flights from Australia's Brisbane to south China's Guangzhou in mid-November to boost tourism and personnel exchanges between the two countries.The airlines will start to fly four non-stop services a week from Nov. 17, its fourth direct flight route...
The upcoming summit of BRICS, a group of major emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, holds significant implications for global geopolitics, reported Modern Diplomacy on Friday.The summit has its central agenda revolving around the launch of a common currency among...
The summer of 2023 is "a summer of extremes," resulting in major damage to people's health and the environment, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Friday.Clare Nullis, spokesperson for the WMO, said here at a press briefing that dangerous weather, including intense heat a...
World
A UN official on Thursday called for a reinvigorated multilateral system for peace in order to address the root causes of hunger.A quarter billion people suffered from acute food insecurity last year, the highest number recorded in recent years. Of these people, some 376,000 were facing famine-like ...
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, said on Thursday that the United States is the "root" of all the problems in the Middle East, Israeli media reported.In his address to a memorial ceremony for a Lebanese Muslim scholar, Nasrallah said that "the main...
Russia's first lunar station in nearly 50 years, Luna-25, will fly to the Moon in the early morning of Aug. 11, local media reported on Thursday.According to Russia's RIA Novosti, the launch date is set for Aug. 11 when the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Fregat upper stage and the automatic stat...
The death toll from this summer's heat wave in South Korea rose to at least 23, Yonhap news agency said on Wednesday citing the fire authorities. Two additional deaths from heatstroke were reported on Tuesday, and the estimated death toll gained to 23, more than three times higher than seve...
New research co-led by the University of Queensland (UQ) and Harvard Medical School has estimated that by the age of 75 years, about one in two individuals are likely to develop at least one of the mental disorders.The study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal on Sunday, included data from 1...
India currently has an estimated population of 4,000 tigers, representing an annual growth rate of 6.1 percent, said an official statement issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on Saturday.The statement, released on International Tiger Day, said 3,167 tigers are living in ...
China will raise the retail prices of gasoline and diesel from Thursday, based on the recent rise in international oil prices.Gasoline prices will be up by 275 yuan (about 38.57 U.S. dollars) per tonne, and diesel prices by 260 yuan per tonne, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a...
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